Lynn Gas & Electric Co. v. Meriden Fire Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, against several insurance companies, upon concurrent policies of the Massachusetts standard form, insuring the building and machinery of the plaintiff against loss or damage by fire. The several suits were tried together, and, by agreement of the parties, the exceptions and record were printed in one action only, the other suits standing continued to await and abide by the decision of this court on the exceptions.
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Contract, against several insurance companies, upon concurrent policies of the Massachusetts standard form, insuring the building and machinery of the plaintiff against loss or damage by fire. The several suits were tried together, and, by agreement of the parties, the exceptions and record were printed in one action only, the other suits standing continued to await and abide by the decision of this court on the exceptions. At the trial, before Hammond, J., it appeared that within the period for which the policies were written a fire occurred in the wire tower, so called, of the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The only exception relied on by the defendants in these cases is that relating to the claim for damage to the machinery used in generating electricity and to the building from a disruption of the machinery. This machinery was in a part of the building remote from the fire, and none of it was burned. In his charge to the jury the judge stated the theory of the plaintiff as follows: “ The plaintiff says the position of the lightning arresters in the vicinity of the fire was *574such that by reason of the fire in the tower a connection was made between them called a short circuit; that the short…
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